I still have 1gb worth of EDO simms laying on a shelf, but I never installed it as I was always to afraid to mess around with it. The case was so small I would of had to dis-assemble it just to get at the simm sockets.

Turns out the first SIMM socket must be a little slack, and maybe just maybe, the pins don't always make solid contact. So I've improvised and used a small plastic wedge to hold the SIMM enough to reach the pins.

I may replace the SIMM socket eventually, but for now we're done and back in business.

Wow, ... so what is the exact hardware config of your "Monster-Hades" now? Where did you get the RAM from? I cannot find a real cheap source recently, but there was one for about 10$ for 128MB a few years ago, …

And the next aim might be to equip your Medusa T40 with 4 GB, as it is the only Atari that can handle more than 1GB to my knowledge

Mathias wrote:But what for do you need more than 512MB? I suspect some compiling jobs, right?

If I am not mistaken the CP/M programmers had similar thoughts when they decided to not support sub-directories until some later CP/M version. I can still hear them saying "Who will be going to use more than 10 files on a disc anyway?".